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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

Leo Tolstoy

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Capable Difficult People Rare Truth Young
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Feeling Love Possible Share
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Complain Fate Life
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Happiness Interest Love Moments Reality World
If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Attitude Change Enjoyment Job Work
Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Bore Intelligence One Liner
Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Heart One Liner Skeleton
Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Achievement Business Greatness Night Patience Success Time
It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Battle Die God Sleep Spare Willing
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Beauty Goodness Illusion Strange Suppose
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Bad Honesty Liar
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Divine Enemy Human Love Person
The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Discover Law Love Reason
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Cry Deep Eat Hustle Motivational Wolf Worse
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Desire Fear She Woman
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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Couple Romantic Sun

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